Call for Contribution - ACM Hypertext 2018
The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT) provides a premium single-track platform for high quality peer-reviewed research on theory, systems and applications of hypertext and social media. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext and social media, including adaptation, personalization, recommendations, user modeling, linked data and semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext, and its application in digital humanities, as well as with interplay between those aspects such as linking stories with data or linking people with resources.
We invite high quality submissions relating to all the above aspects of hypertext and social media, but encourage submissions to align themselves with three broad themes:
- Hyper society, covers digital humanities and connecting/connected people
- Hyper data, covers connected things on the documents, Web, and IoT
- Hyper media, covers connected traditional and non-traditional media
Accepted papers will appear in the Hypertext 2018 Conference Proceedings that will be published by ACM and additionally be made available through the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers from HT18 will be invited to submit an extension to ACM TWEB. Submitted extensions will be reviewed in a fast-tracked process. As traditional, one paper will be selected for the Douglas Englebart best paper award.
Acceptance of the papers will be either as full (regular) or short papers with corresponding oral presentation slots, and at least one author is required to register as presenter. In addition, all authors of accepted papers are invited to prepare a poster that they can present together with accepted demos at Poster and Demos reception.
Papers must report original, previously unpublished results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, analysis, or application. Two submission categories are possible:
- Regular research papers (8 pages, with up to 1 page extra for references, for a total of 9 pages max) discussing mature research results.
- Short papers (4 pages, with up to 1 page extra for references, for a total of 5 pages max) presenting ongoing and preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases, or results that do not require more detailed discussion.
Selected regular paper submissions may be recommended for publication as short papers.
Call for Research Papers
Call for Research Papers
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Call for Tutorial Proposals
Tutorial Proposals
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Call for Blue Sky Ideas
Blue Sky Ideas
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Call for Research Papers
Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines, selecting the generic "sigconf" template and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair. Submissions will be double blind, and care must be taken to anonymize submissions. Papers will also be required to select at least one and up to three keywords on EasyChair to allow better assignment of reviewers. The keywords will be based on the indicative (but not prescriptive) list of topics of interest as listed below, in accordance with the themes of HT 2018:
Topics of interest of the track include (but are not limited to):
- Studies of online communities and their behavior
- Community of practice, online participation
- Centrality and ranking in social networks
- Graph partitioning and community discovery
- Link prediction
- Location-aware social networks and mobility
- Expertise and trust in online social networks
- New models and algorithms for social network analysis
- Crowdsourcing and social media
- Information diffusion in social networks
- Social influence
- Studies of human culture based on online social networks and encyclopedia, computational methods to assess human culture along different dimensions (such as language, food, music, literature etc.)
- Using social media to study psychological and social phenomena, and corresponding methods to assess such phenomena via web-based investigations
- Biases in social media, such as population biases, channel bias, self-selection bias, etc and computational methods for assessment and correction
- The study of limitations of tools used in digital humanities, extension of traditional source criticism into the development of systematic "tool criticism"
- Social and individual inequalities on the web, e.g. gender or race disparities, computational methods and instruments to assess and track inequalities
- Studies of political processes and dynamics on the web, such as elections, political unrest, grassroots movements
- Predictions with social media, e.g. stock markets, spread of language, culture, memes or diseases
- Longitudinal studies of social phenomena and social change on the web
- Computational methods to assess and improve social and/or individual well-being via the web
- Studies investigating the role and causal impact of algorithms in facilitating social interactions on the web
Topics of interest that align with this theme include (but are not limited to):
- Analysis of semantic networks
- Representation of semantic networks
- Semantics of hyperlinks
- Linked Data networks
- Semantic annotations and enrichments
- Temporal evolution and management of semantic graphs
- Semantic graph analysis algorithms
- Semantic social network representation and analysis
- Scalability of graph-based algorithms and infrastructures
- Integration of online and offline networks with semantics
- Semantic object networks
- Semantic data from pervasive devices
- Semantic sensor networks and the IoT
Topics of interest of the track include (but are not limited to):
- Adaptive authoring and design of hypermedia
- Adaptive hypertext frameworks and toolkits
- Community and social circle evolution
- Recommendation approaches and recommender systems
- Enhancing hyperspace with recommendations
- Hypermedia classification and metadata systems
- Information interfaces and navigation support
- Personalization and recommendations for hypermedia
- Usability and scrutability of adaptive hypermedia
- User modelling for adaptive hypermedia
- User modeling, log analysis, and interaction models
- User Interfaces, design and evaluation
- Intelligent user interfaces
- User studies involving specific population or a specific domain
- Systems designed especially for a specific population or domain
- Interactive digital storytelling
- Automated analysis of narratives
- Automated story or (semantic) link generation
- Narrative analysis of (Big) Data
- Associative and narrative interlinking by exploiting Linked and Open Data
- Location-based narratives
- Social Media Narratives
- Computational narratives in the humanities
- Collaborative storytelling techniques and/or technologies
- Theoretical work on writing/design of hypermedia and interactive fiction
- Hypermedia authoring tools and technologies
- Privacy and ethical issues in digital storytelling
- Formal or computational models of narrative and hypertext
- Argumentation and Rhetoric
- Digital journalism and Citizen/Collaborative News
- E-Literature
- Cinematic Hypermedia
- Personalization and Adaptation in Hypermedia
- Life-logging and Digital Storytelling
- Adaptive hypertext frameworks, toolkits and applications
- Adaptive Educational Hypermedia
- Hypermedia authoring
- Intelligent Narratives
Call for Tutorial Proposals
As part of the Hypertext 2018 program, in addition, we cordially invite proposals for tutorials from active researchers and experienced tutors in academia, industry, and government agencies. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research and ideas, innovative developments, and novel applications in a specific aspect of hypertext and social media, but proposals are especially encouraged on emerging topics, related to the main conference themes.
Send your tutorial proposal (in PDF format, no more than 2 page-long) by email to the tutorial chairs (Pete Burnap -
BurnapP@cardiff.ac.uk - and Miriam Redi - miriam.redi@gmail,com) by 2nd March 2018 with the following information:
- Title of the tutorial
- Keywords (describing the main themes of the tutorial)
- Abstract
- Description of the tutorial (topics and goals)
- Tutorial presenters biographies (1-2 paragraphs per presenter)
- Length of tutorial (1.5 or 3 hours)
- Expected background and prerequisite of audience
- Relevance of the tutorial to Hypertext 2018
- A list of references/resources to be covered in the tutorial
- Previous editions of the tutorial, if presenters have given similar tutorials elsewhere
The accepted proposal presenters should provide comprehensive tutorial notes or slides to the tutorial audience free of charge.
Call for Blue Sky Ideas
This year, with support from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), ACM Hypertext is organizing a special Blue Sky Ideas Track. The emphasis of this track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and new research opportunities. This track is designed to overcome the constraints of the traditional review process, and will serve as an incubator for innovative approaches, risky and provocative ideas, and to propose challenges and opportunities in the near future. Submissions to this track are limited to a maximum of 4 pages, using the given submission template and are to be submitted at our easychair submission site. Thanks to CCC sponsorship, the top 3 papers submitted to this track will be awarded with travel grants of $1000, $750 and $500 respectively. Successful submissions will be published in the regular proceedings. All submissions to this special track will be evaluated by a dedicated committee consisting of Mark Bernstein (Eastgate), Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Charlie Hargood (Bournemouth University), David Millard (University of Southampton), Nishanth Sastry (King's College London) and Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute).
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